Re: specific libraries for development (not the recent custom libc discussion)

["Rainforestboy" <sensory-transduction@stephen-mcgregor.com>]

Thanks Brian, and Holger Levsen who similiarly pointed out schroot. 
I'm sure you are right, and that's what I'll do.

thank you

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>---- Original Message ----
>From: brian@ristuccia.com
>To: sensory-transduction@stephen-mcgregor.com,
>debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: specific libraries for development (not the recent
>custom libc discussion)
>Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:03:31 +0000
>
>>One way to work around the problem you're having is with a chroot.
>This method wil allow you to have a seperate filesystem space in
>which to do your development, including installing odd library
>versions and so on without risk of breaking your main system. There's
>a few packages in Debian which can help automate the process of
>creating a chroot area, mounting the various things like /home inside
>of it to improve usability, and even programs which automatically
>create and use a chroot when building Debian packages from source.
>The "dchroot" package is a good starting point.